President Barack Obama's 2012 campaign was just as innovative as his first, making use of revolutionary new digital tools to help secure victory on Election Day. Among the most important tools in Obama's digital utility belt was Quick Donate, which w...

Facebook’s “I’m Voting” app was credited in a study with convincing 340,000 Americans to vote in 2010, and the social network brought it back for 2012’s national elections. Although we don’t yet know what effect Facebook had on voter turnout this yea...

Zac Moffatt, digital director for Mitt Romney’s failed presidential bid, is emerging as a leading scapegoat for the Republican loss. Conservative media voices such as Erick Erickson at Red State and Mike Flynn at Breitbart are beating up on Moffatt o...

If you're over the age of 12 and have a moderately stable Internet connection, you've probably witnessed or engaged in a nasty election-based argument online. You may have even dropped a few friends in the process. But forget about "Obama vs. Romney"...

Whether it's with glee or horror, political observers can now watch Mitt Romney's fall from social-media grace in real-time. The former Republican presidential candidate has been bleeding likes since losing the U.S. election last Tuesday, with users ...

Earlier this week 22-year-old California woman Denise Helms made some disastrous social media choices after President Barack Obama won re-election. Helms wrote on Facebook: "Another 4 years of this . Maybe he will get assassinated this term.” The rac...

You didn't know it at the time, but when you logged into Facebook on Election Day, you became a subject in a mass social experiment. You went about your day, clicked around Facebook, and you may have voted. Now your behavior is data that social scien...

President Barack Obama didn’t just win the election. He also won over Tumblr. Obama collected more than 75,000 mentions Tuesday compared to Mitt Romney’s 35,000, according to exclusive statistics provided to the Daily Dot by Union Metrics, Tumblr’s a...

Despite nearly 8% unemployment, a tepid economy and millions of dollars in negative advertising, President Obama managed to pull off a sizable Electoral College win on Tuesday. While Obama's 2008 campaign is now seen as a real-world demonstration of ...

Election Day served up a double scoop of memorable moments, but if by hour six of CNN's touchscreen-filled coverage you started feeling queasy, we're here to help. Think of it as Pepto Bismol for your brain. We gathered up all the moments that had Tw...

New Yorkers didn't have to bother with cable news pundits to track the presidential election returns on Tuesday -- the results lit up the night sky. The iconic Empire State Building kept a running tally of electoral votes for both Barack Obama and Mi...

Call it the new 47%. That's the percentage of you who have unfriended someone on Facebook because of this election, according to our poll from a few hours back (which has 1,500 respondents and counting). That's not even counting the folks you've mute...

Election night is like no other for on-air journalists. It's what Christmas is like to Santa Claus, Flag Day is for Betsy Ross and the Super Bowl for football players. It's a non-stop night of filler coverage, while pundits and political reporters st...

President Barack Obama celebrated his historic reelection victory across social media Tuesday night, right? Not quite. On Twitter, Obama posted several post-election tweets, including his 'four more years' tweet which broke retweeting records. He pos...

President Barack Obama's re-election Tuesday night means NASA will likely continue along its current path, working to get astronauts to an asteroid by 2025 among other goals. A change of course for the space agency was possible had Mitt Romney won th...

Tuesday night was a night for political decision-making, but it was also a night for political news-making. News sites experienced one of those increasingly rare things: a moment when the eyes of a nation are collectively focused on the same small co...

Critics and fans alike knew all about Colleen Lachowicz's prowess at World of Warcraft. Now she's shown them she's a champion at politics, too. The Democratic candidate for the Maine State Senate won her election last night. Lachowicz announced the w...

Barack Obama's victory for his second term as U.S. President sparked substantial social media reaction Tuesday night. Among conservative users of Twitter, the news of Mitt Romney's defeat launched a great deal of chatter as well -- some sympathetic, ...

While television networks were busy reporting the results of the presidential election last night, Conan O'Brien felt a little left out. So, in typical Team Coco fashion, he and co-host Andy Richter decided to broadcast their own -- albeit phony -- r...

Voters made history in several states Tuesday, as Maine and Maryland became the first two states to legalize gay marriage by popular vote and Colorado and Washington state legalized recreational use of marijuana. Wisconsin's election of Tammy Baldwin...

Barack Obama may have comfortably won re-election in the electoral college, and opened up a decisive lead (two million and counting) in the popular vote. But here is the absolute, undoubted winner of this election: Nate Silver and his running mate, b...

Political pundit Karl Rove seemed to have a hard time accepting the election results, as the video, above, shows. While other news networks began calling the election based on President Barack Obama taking Ohio, Fox stumbled on the announcement. At f...

Politicians and pundits can't help saying they were right -- or rather, we can't resist hearing them say they were wrong. Throughout the evening, they took to the Twitterverse to make predictions, provide analysis and congratulate victors. And when P...

Shortly after President Barack Obama was announced the winner of the 2012 election, Donald Trump had what some might call a melodramatic freak out on Twitter. He condemned America's democratic process, said the Electoral College should get out of tow...

A college professor and his student developed a CSS jack that applies an 8-bit treatment to NPR’s Election Night Scorecard. According to creator Jeremy Gilbert, NPR supported the NES-style project that was developed to "best enjoy the night’s electio...

If watching the blue and red map on TV for hours is making you feel like the nation is cracking apart, try following the presidential election on Twitter -- it'll have you cracking up. Twitter comedians have been practicing for months. They've had th...

Election Day is almost over. Are you tired of all the electoral votes and percentage points yet? OK, remove your serious hat and look at these 20 Instagram shots of the cutest Americans that made it the polls today. This decision day, we found toddle...

As polls on the East Coast close, results start trickling in, and the Obama and Romney campaigns have set their headquarters in Chicago and Boston, respectively, awaiting the results. Obama's camp is located at McCormick Place, the largest convention...

SInce the advent of television campaign ads in 1952, video has been a significant tool in the democratic process. This year's presidential election was no exception -- the explosion of viral content on social media went hand in hand with politics, an...

Immigration may be a popular pre-election topic, but after the election all anyone seems to want to talk about is emigration -- to Canada. It's an Election Day tradition for people to threaten to "move to Canada" if their presidential candidate of ch...

If you've been anxiously hitting the refresh button on Nate Silver's election statistics blog, fivethirtyeight.com, you're not alone. Fivethirtyeight, licensed and hosted by the New York Times since 2010, collects all polls and aggregates them in an ...

It's Election Day, and it seems Americans are figuring out who is running for president just in the nick of time. Google search trends show that searches for "who is running for President" have steadily risen over the year, spiking in just the past f...

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